From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.lang.hm (unknown [66.167.227.145]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9AD283B29D for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2022 02:29:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from dlang-mobile (unknown [10.2.2.69]) by mail.lang.hm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCC5122B8E; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 23:29:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 23:29:44 -0800 (PST) From: David Lang To: Larry Press cc: David Lang , Jonathan Bennett , "starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1p492142-q944-r494-6s6r-p6q37s57qnq4@ynat.uz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink Roaming X-BeenThere: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Starlink has bufferbloat. Bad." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 07:29:45 -0000 tonight I took it to a friends house about 25 miles away and within a couple min it gave me an error message saying that I wasn't at my assigned location. David Lang On Mon, 21 Feb 2022, Larry Press wrote: > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 07:22:44 +0000 > From: Larry Press > To: David Lang , > Jonathan Bennett > Cc: "starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net" > Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink Roaming > > David brought his dish to my location -- about fifty miles from his service loacation and in a different cell and it could not connect. We had a clear view of the entire sky. He speculated that that was because it was registered to use a specific ground station that was out of range at my place. Does that seem reasonable? > > Larry Press > ________________________________ > From: Starlink on behalf of David Lang > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2022 12:29 PM > To: Jonathan Bennett > Cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net > Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink Roaming > > I asked starlink about temp service away from my registered location, they said > I have two options > > 1. formally change the service location (if approved, guaranteed to work, but > you aren't guaranteed to be able to change the service location back) > > 2. best effort, set it up and try it. Service may perfect, or may be worse (all > the way to non-existant) depending on how many other dishes are in use in the > area. > > I've done some limited testing with my dish within about 15 miles of my > registered location (in both cases with less than optimal sky views) and it's > worked without a hitch. I plan to do a test further away this weekend (but in a > less populated area, so I have high hopes) > > David Lang > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2022, Jonathan Bennett wrote: > >> It appears that there is now a system in place for Starlink to re-connect >> even if you are outside your official service cell. For those of us who >> want to use Starlink on vacations or other trips, this is quite the >> development. >> >> --Jonathan Bennett >> > _______________________________________________ > Starlink mailing list > Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink__;!!P7nkOOY!txPxU76SxJ4JvYe2kDjl5OcuAgSIb7mkHWuCMgt3eSH3Tec--6vePH_RCs0NVt6n2TE6_9HsG20fOA$ >